Hello again and welcome to the Aviation News Talk podcast. I'm Max Truscott and this is our weekly show dedicated to everything general aviation, such as news and safety tips for pilots and student pilots like you.

Today I've invited Flying Magazine senior editor Rob Mark to give us an update on the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash.

Plus to lighten things up a little, Rob and I will discuss a number of weird aviation

stories from the last two weeks, and as part of our commentary, we'll pass along some safety

tips about them as well.

Last week in episode 160, we talked about why pilots will want to fly an electric aircraft

and when you'll be able to do that.

So if you didn't hear that episode, you may want to check it out at aviation newstalk.com

slash 160.

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it's free. And before we start talking with Rob,

I do want to mention Hurricane Laura, which hit the U.S. a few days ago and destroyed hangers

and planes at the Lake Charles Regional Airport and the Southland Field airports, both in Louisiana.

I hope you and your families were not severely impacted by the hurricane.

Here in California, it's been two weeks since the massive wildfires began.

The two closest fires to me have destroyed over a thousand structures.

It are now 50% and 35% contained with only a few lives lost for which were thankful.

But unfortunately, over the weekend, there was a plane crash in Illinois in the wee hours of

Saturday morning that killed a judge. He had only owned the used serious aircraft for a few days when it crashed

at 1.30 a.m. in the morning while flying an approach into his home airport, which was reporting

200-foot vertical visibility and one-half-mile visibility, which were slightly below the

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